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Sobre el amor

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Alain Badiou acaba de publicar la versión inglesa de su libro sobre el amor, según nos reporta Stuart Jeffries en su columna del diario británico The Guardian. En esta obra, Badiou, a quien Jeffries califica como el “filósofo viviente más grande … Continue reading →

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Catastroika, The Movie

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidim — the same directors of Deptocracy (2011) — have just released a new documentary that explores the connection between the ongoing Greek crisis and similar crises around the world. They use Namoi Klein’s shock doctrine as their … Continue reading →

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Carlos Fuentes, RIP

Posted on May 15, 2012 by admin

Hoy se fue otro de los grandes de la literatura Latinoamericana del siglo XX, el mexicano Carlos Fuentes. En obras como La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura y Terra Nostra, Fuentes exploró los límites de la novela Latinoamericana, canibalizando tendencias … Continue reading →

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

A few words on a recent controversy about the intersection of philosophy and faith that emerged from this apparently benign question. All of it comes from a very provocative book from Cosmologist Lawrence Kraus that generated some very interesting responses — for instance, … Continue reading →

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On Reading Schmitt II: Pluri-versality

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin

Continuing on my reading of Schmitt‘s The Concept of the Political, I have a few comments. In section 6 Schmitt develops his notion of a pluri-versal world as opposed to a uni-versal one. Essentially, Schmitt refuses the idea of a global, uni-versal … Continue reading →

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